The new analysis finds that local authorities spent £372.12m on youth services in 2019/20 - six per cent less than over the previous year.
This means that since 2010/11 funding for youth services has been cut by 73 per cent, researchers say.
They argue that cuts have come despite youth services being “at their most critical point in history” due to “the disproportionate and devastating impact of the pandemic on young people’s mental health”.
Research carried out by the YMCA in August last year, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, found that more than half (57 per cent) of young people felt that their mental health had worsened during lockdown, with 77 per cent feeling lonelier and more isolated.
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